A few months ago, our weekly Wednesday work knit club embarked on an ambitious project for our friend. She was expecting a baby and wanting to give her something lovely, we decided to crochet a blanket for her.

Using  a waggon wheel throw pattern, from my Rowan Crochet Workshop book, we started making the little wheels in various colours. At that point we had no idea that she would be having a beautiful baby girl. Hence, the blue and pink themed blanket.

Many weeks later, we had finally made enough wheels to start thinking about the laborious job of stitching them together.

Founding member of the knit club, Ayesha, had the inspired idea to turn them into flower shapes. This made it a lot easier to mix the odd numbers of different colours together, and looked much nicer than a random arrangement.

At this point we needed to get this blanket finished fast, so each of us took wheels home to stitch together. Sophie received some rather odd looks crocheting on her morning commute from Milton Keynes.

With the baby already arrived, Camille arranged an emergency knit club that resulted in us staying till half seven in the evening getting the final pieces stitched together. With the help of Sarah’s super speedy wheel making, we even managed to do a few more wheels to make an even bigger blanket.

We finally completed it and popped it in the post the next day. Luckily baby and mother loved it and it was all worth it. Hurray for happy babies!